Auto golf-bag carrier



July 1 1.924. 1,500,967

F. FRISK AUTO GOLF BAG CARRIER Filed Oct. 12 1922 Patented duly l, 1924.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK FRISK, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND* MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO FRISK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

AUTO GOLF-BAG CARRIER.

Application filed October 12, 1922. Serial No. 594,013.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK FRISK, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Auto Golf-Bag Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in carriers for golf bags and resides in the provision of a simply constructed and inexpensive device of this nature which may be readily mounted upon the running board or some other portion of an automobile and effectively employed to support and hold in upright position, a golf bag.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a carrier of the character described in which there is novel means for clamping the carrier upon the running board or other part of an automobile, which means is associated with golf bag holding members such that when the latter are brought into golf bag holding position, the clamping means will be automatically tightened and hold the carrier in place.

The invention possesses other advantages and features some of which, with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full that form of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the present specification. In said drawings I have shown one form of the construction of my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form since the invention as expressed in the claims may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of a part of an automobile showing the carrier of my invention as it would appear when in use, the dotted lines showing the carrier in partially collapsed position.

Fig. 2 represents a cross sectional view through the running board of an automobile showing in section the device of my invention as when applied to said running board.

Fig. 3-represents a bottom plan view of the carrier.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view taken on line 4-4: of Fig. 2.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing, 1 designates a base member which is, in this instance, of a U- shape and formed of channel iron but may be otherwise shaped, as desired. The arms of the body 1. The body 1 is adapted to lie' in parallel relation to the upper side of the running board 4: of the automobile, whereas the portions 3 are adapted to engage the under side of the running board and act as clamping jaws, as will be later described. The requirements as to the body portion in: cluding the parts 2 and 3, is a construction which will permit of the slipping of the body portion over the running board so that a part thereof will extend over the top of the running board and a part beneath the latter.

Pivoted on opposite sides of the body portion 1 are upright supporting members 5 and 6, of a height substantially equal to the golf bag, shown at A in Fig. 1, and adapted to receive between them, said bag. The members 5 and 6 each comprise a pair of upright rods 7 and 8 preferably formed of a single piece of material bent centrally of its ends to form an off-set lever-like jaw 9, a portion of which jaw is covered with a tube 10 of rubber or some other cushioning material. These jaws extend substantially at right angles to the rods 7 and 8 and are joined to the rods 7 and 8 by short horizon tal portions 11 which are rotatable in ears 12 secured to opposite sides of the body portion 1. In this way the members 5 and 6 are movable towards and away from one another to provide for securing and removing of the golf bag. The jaws are arranged to extend parallel and at slightly spaced relation to one another at a point adjacent the center of the body portion so as to engage upon the top of the running board and with the portions 3 of the body portion effect a clamping action such as will hold the car rier firmly in place. This action taking place when the members 5 and 6 are moved into bag holding position.

Secured by clips or other suitable fastening means 13, to one of the jaws 9 is a bag supporting member or plate 14, in this instance of substantially rectilinear outline.

The corners of the plate are turned upwardly as at 15 so as to provide retaining flanges to engage the bottom of the bar and prevent lateral movement thereof when the latter is supported by the carrier. By having the corners turned upwardly or inclined outwardly and upwardly on the member 1a, said member will provide for an eifective supporting and holding of bags of differing diameters and, regardless of the size of the bag, hold the latter against lateral movement.

At the upper ends of the rods 7 and 8 there are provided loops 16 through which a strap 17 is extended, said strap having the usual buckle 18.

lVhen it is desired to support and carry a golf bag upon the automobile as shown in Fig. 1, the body portion 1 is slipped over the outer edge of the running board 4:, as shown in Fig. 2, and the members 5 and 6 are moved apart into substantially the positionrshown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The bag is then placed with the bottom resting on the supporting member 14c and the members 5 and 6 are brought into upright positionand pressed towards one another so that their upper ends will engage and press inwardly on the bag. The strap is then tightened causing the rods 7 and 8 of the members 5 and 6 to clamp against the bag and likewise cause the jaws 9 to be moved from dotted line position shown in Fig 1, into position to effectively clamp upon the running board. The closer together the members 5 and 6 are moved, the greater the clamping action at the aws 9 and when an effective clamping action on the bag and at the jaws 9 has been provided, the strap is buckled. The rods are preferably made so as to give or yield in order to prevent injuring or breaking of the parts of the device when the rods are moved into bag supporting and holding position. Near their upper ends, the rods are forcibly engaged with the bag and the degree of such engagement is varied dependent upon the clamp ing action necessary to hold the device upon the running board. By engagement of the rods 7 and 8 also the strap with the golf bag near the upper end of the latter, said bag will be securely held in place, it being prevented from lateral movement at the lower end by the cup shaped supporting member 14 and held against upward movement by said strap and the rods 7 and 8.

By combining the clamping means for se curing the carrier to the automobile with the golf bag supporting and holding device, namely: the members 5 and 6, the carrier is simplified in construction and operation and I consider this one of the principal fea tures of my invention.

While I have shown the device as particularly adapted for supporting a golf bag,

1 wish it understood that it may be modified as to the members 5 and 6, and used for supporting articles other than golf bags, i being thought unnecessary to illustrate such arrangements inasmuch as they are entirely within the scope of the invention, and as above pointed out the principal feature of the invention is the provision of article supporting members combined with clamping means for securing the article supporting members upon the running board or other part of an automobile.

It is obvious that to release the bag and provide for its removal from the carrier,- it is only necessary to unbuckle the strap and move the members 5 and 6 into the dotted line position shown in Fig. 1.

I claim:

1. A carrier of the character described comprising a body member having a pertionadapted to extend beneath and engage the lower side of the running board of an automobile, upright article supporting members mounted on the body portion so as to move towards and away from one another and to receive therebetweenan article to be supported and aws which when said article supporting members are moved towards one another will engage and press downwardly upon the running board.

2. A carrier of the character described comprising a body member having a portion adapted to extend beneath and engage the lower side of the running board of an automobile, upright article supporting members mounted on the body portion so as to move towards and away from one another and t receive therebetween an article to be supported, jaws which when said article supporting members are moved towards one another will engage and press downwardly upon the running board and means for securing said article supporting members in article supporting position.

3. A carrier adapted to be secured upon the running board of an automobile comprising a body member having a portion adapted to engage the under side of the running board, upright article supporting members carried on the body portion vand movable towards and away from one another, jaws carried by the article support-- ing members arranged to movetowards and clamp upon the running board when said article supporting members are moved to wards one another, means for securing said supporting members in article supporting position, which means comprises a flexible element adapted to surround the article to be supported, loops on said article supporting membersthrough which the flexible element is extended and means for securing the. flexible element, in position tightly engaged with the article to be supported.

FREDERICK FRISKH 

